ProWeatherLive vs Ecowitt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProWeatherLive
View your personal weather station data and local forecasts in real-time. Monitor your home environment with detailed metrics like wind speed, rainfall, temperature, and humidity. Customize alerts and track weather patterns with interactive graphs.
- Personal weather station data
- Local forecasts
- Home environment monitoring
- Customizable alerts
- Weather graphs
- Real-time data
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ProWeatherLive puts your compatible personal weather station at your fingertips. Track your home environment in detail — wind speed and direction, rainfall, UV, light, temperature, and humidity — all in real time. Customize alerts to stay ahead of changing conditions, and explore your data with intuitive graphs and visualizations. With ProWeatherLive, you don’t just check the weather—you monitor and understand it, right where you live.
Ecowitt
This app connects to professional Wi-Fi weather stations, offering real-time indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and air quality monitoring. It also supports high-precision rain gauges, providing comprehensive environmental data.
- Wi-Fi weather station integration
- Indoor/outdoor thermometer
- Humidity monitor
- Rain gauge
- Air quality monitor
- Data service support
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We provides professional wifi weather station, wireless indoor outdoor thermometers, humidity monitors, high precision rain gauges, air quality monitors and more, Data service support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ecowitt at 2.9 against ProWeatherLive's 1.8. Ecowitt also leads on review sentiment (46% vs 22%) and chart position (#141 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ecowitt holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 68 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of ProWeatherLive's written reviews are positive against 46% of Ecowitt's.
ProWeatherLive ships an update monthly, Ecowitt every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | ProWeatherLive | Ecowitt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (14 ratings) | 2.9 (68 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.4% of reviews | 45.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 68 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #141 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CCL Electronics Ltd | 玮 彭 |
Customer experience
ProWeatherLive
Ecowitt
User reviews
ProWeatherLive
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Nice new design
- ✨ Improved UI/UX
- ✨ Functional app for some users
- ✨ World weather section addition
- ✨ Quick correction for lightning display
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connection issues with station
- 🐛 Login/authentication problems
- 🐛 App frequently unresponsive
- 🐛 Data not updating
- 🐛 Poor translation quality
Ecowitt
From 68 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📊 Excellent data visualization and charting capabilities
- ⚡ Fast and reliable performance
- 🎯 Intuitive and easy-to-use interface
- 🔌 Seamless integration with multiple sensors
- 💰 Good value for money
Room to improve
- 🔔 Lacks push notifications and alert system
- 📱 Limited mobile-specific features (no widgets)
- 🔐 Requires frequent login authentication
- 🗺️ Poor map performance and slow refresh
- 📊 Graphs not easily accessible from main screen
Bugs and requests
ProWeatherLive
Reported bugs
54 issues- Station not connecting to phone
- Difficulty relaunching updates after new interface
- App forgets settings after closing/restarting
- Graphics inverted compared to sensor order
- Station not found after update
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- Text and language errors in French
- Login not working after update
- Unable to reconnect or reset password
- No mail sent for password reset
- Lightning strike display missing
- Device connection lost
- Slow to respond
- App not showing data on iPhone
- No data transfer, no errors shown
- App broken (logins, password reset, create account)
- No data connection
- Weather station not reachable
- All saved stations disappeared after update
- App not letting user log in
- App not functioning, not worthy of Bresser station
- App not holding selected unit settings
- Dashboard shows no device
- Login page disappears
- Device disappears and reappears later
- App goes days without updating
- App hardly picks up device
- Takes ages to load
- Login screen freezes
- Unable to type username and password
- App locks at username/password screen
- Servers almost always not synchronizing
- App not working with iOS 18
- App won't open
- Inaccurate and incomplete German translation
- Outdoor pressure not displayed in overview
- Incomplete German translation (daily rain, feels like, windchill)
- App often unreachable
- Poor integration of lightning module
- No updates
- App constantly has loading problems
- Login errors and crashes with timeout
- Latitude and longitude cannot be set
- Forecasts are unusable
- Language changes completely to English when rotating display
- App makes a complete reload and refresh
- Cannot create an account
- App does not recognize account
- Does not receive new password
- Data not updated for 6 hours
- Impossible to refresh data
- App not recording data
- No dark mode
- Displaying times overlap, making reading difficult
- HTTP address not reachable
Requested features
15 requests- Revert to old app version
- Open to weather station by default
- Save last view setting
- Ability to name sensors
- Improve French translations
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- Add dark mode
- Allow renaming of channels/sensors
- Add lightning strike count and distance tab
- Allow naming of temperature sensors by location
- Add dew point monitoring
- Allow custom time periods and comparisons
- Improve German translations
- Allow hiding unwanted weather data
- Fix overlapping times on graphs
- Allow moving screens within the app
Ecowitt
Reported bugs
15 issues- Version 1.1.27 update caused app-breaking popup loop
- Graphs automatically rotate to landscape mode
- Annual rainfall calculation incorrect - doesn't reset yearly
- App crashes or freezes on iPad after multiple opens
- Login credentials not remembered between sessions
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- Webcam videos don't play within app
- Dew point displays constant zero value
- Graphs hidden behind dynamic island on newer iPhones
- Map refresh delay when navigating
- App won't launch or shows spinning loading icon
- Incompatibility with recent iOS versions
- Connection drops and fails to reconnect
- Sensor ordering resets to default
- Camera share feature unclickable
- Rainfall data not displayed during heavy rain events
Requested features
18 requests- iOS widgets for home screen display
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Push notifications for alerts and alarms
- Support for IFTTT and smart home integration
- 72-hour graph view option
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- Multi-sensor comparison on single graph
- Ability to edit and delete erroneous data
- Monthly and yearly data reports
- Dark mode option
- Font size customization
- Landscape view support on iPad
- Location search feature without scrolling map
- Biometric authentication
- Automatic cache clearing
- Tide chart functionality
- Data export and download options
- Better camera image quality controls
- Customizable graph intervals
In-app purchases
ProWeatherLive
No in-app purchases
Ecowitt
No in-app purchases
Questions
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